historical imagination

German translation: historischer Weitblick

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13:27 Jan 19, 2003

English to German translations [PRO]History

English term or phrase:historical imagination

It was also, in the 1990’s, a general failure of the historical imagination, an inability of the post-cold-war West to grasp that the emerging crisis of state order in so many overlapping zones of the world would eventually become a security threat at home.